It is with great sadness that we take notice of the passing away of Christopher Hitchens due to long illness with cancer.

“He was a cross between Voltaire and Orwell. He loved words.

“He would drink a bottle of whisky when I would manage two glasses of wine and then be up in the morning writing 1,000 perfect words.

“He could throw words up into the sky, they fell down in a marvellous pattern.”

Denis McShane

Link: Christopher Hitchens dies after battle with cancer

Besides for his sharp intellect and his potent writing skills, Hitchens would be best remembered for his ferocious attacks on religion, his intense hatred for an harmless old lady named Mother Theresa who dedicated her entire life to doing good and his enthusiastic support for the USA led invasion of Iraq which led to the death of over a hundred thousands civilians and the displacement of over a million people.

Link: Christopher Hitchens sold war in Iraq

Cheers then to an exemplary atheist. May his soul rest in peace.